George Clinton

Ten Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: May 2-8

Ringing in your first week of May is a week of music that's as diverse as it gets. We've got everything from Rodriguez, the legendary musician and subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugarman, to the Dwarves, a group of disgusting punk badboys. Get a taste for them by watching cli ... More >>

Good Friday: 35 Denton Isn't the Only Thing To Do This Weekend

​It would be slightly unfortunate to have scheduled a concert on the same weekend as 35 Denton, but it's not like everyone's going up there, right? [Crickets chirping; the entire office is headed North on I-35.] But, for those of us left behind, there are still plenty of things to do around town, ... More >>

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Delta Spirit and This Week's Show Announcements

​It's been eleven years since Stephen Malkmus released his self-titled debut with The Jicks, and on that first tour, during a stop at the old Gypsy Tea Room (on the big side), he made good use of the musical elbow room his new band allowed him, ripping solo after solo. He also proved he's strong e ... More >>

Vanilla Ice To Bring "Earthquakes With Aftershakes" at Gathering of the Juggalos '11

iTz VaNiLla IcE, y'ALl!​It's coming: This weekend, in a video starring Dallas' Own Rob Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice), the Insane Clown Posse announced the lineup for its annual Gathering of The Juggalos event, which this year will run August 11 - 14 in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois.What's kind of crazy, t ... More >>

George Clinton On How To Live A Long, Funky Life

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to See George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic Tonight

​It's been a long, funky road for George Clinton, who has been playing with Parliament-Funkadelic and it's offshoots since the late 1960s. Luckily, though, time hasn't slowed him down: The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and legend of funk is stopping by Dallas with his band tonight tonight to lay dow ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Band of Horses at Verizon Theatre, George Clinton at South Side Music Hall and Molotov Solution at Hailey's Club. LATE ADD: Strange Boys at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios.

A busy Thursday evening is highlighted by one of the best bands of the decade and a legendary master of psychedelic funk.

Show Announcements: Fleet Foxes, Decemberists, Beth Orton, Rusko, Ray Price, Adele, Maps & Atlases, Delorean, Dashboard Confessional, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Dokken, Wilco, Ricky Martin, Deftones, The Dillinger Escape Plan and More!

Fleet Foxes​Two years ago, Fleet Foxes blindsided indie-rock fans with a self-titled debut record full of four-part harmonies and folk songs that were both melancholy and triumphant. The self-made record, which was done on a shoe-string budget, went on to sell over 300,000 records worldwide.  ... More >>

My First Show: Taylor Young of The O's Saw New Kids On The Block When He Was Nine.

Taylor Young​Welcome to a new feature here on DC9 called My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be.If you've heard Taylor Young and John Pedigo perform as The O's before, you've probably ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: P-Funk Tears the Roof Off the Convention Center in '76

​There's no need imagining the scene -- a show videotaped in Houston, at the Summit, on Halloween '76 gives you some idea of the spectacle George Clinton, Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, the late Gary Shider and the rest of the Mothership Connection took on the road that ... More >>

Show Announcements: George Clinton's Mothership To Connect With House Of Blues April 22, More

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic at the Granada Theater in 2006.​Don't burn your entire stash on 4/20, because just two days later George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic will touch down at House of Blues in Dallas.Bandleader Clinton, as if you needed an introduction, is a true legend of ... More >>

Year in Review: Way Down South With the Best Rap Albums of 2009

Yeah, it stirred the Yankees to the World Series championship, but was there a more boring album this year than Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3? Perhaps it was a geographic thing; with a few exceptions like Raekwon and Kid Cudi, most of 2009's exciting, innovative rap records came from Southern artists. Sur ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Margot and the Nuclear So & So's, Telekinesis, and Everything, Now! at Hailey's

[Editor's Note: Never mind the above byline; this review was penned by Observer contributor Daniel Hopkins.]Margot and the Nuclear So & So's, Telekinesis, and Everything, Now!Hailey's Club, Denton May 22, 2009Better than: Sitting at home trying to come up with a more ridiculous band name than Ma ... More >>

Get Out Your "Flashlight"

Show Announcements: P Funk, Tricky, Del the Funky Homosapien, More

Pull out your funkiest pair of dancing shoes, 'cause George Clinton's landing the P Funk mothership in Dallas this May. More of the latest show announcements come after the jump.

Echoes and Reverberations: Anthony and Flea's Tube Sock Diaries

When you're 23 years old, it's all about smoking dope out of an empty beer can, having sex in the backseat of your car, and watching Soul Train the next morning with a hammer-to-the-forehead hangover. At least, it would've been for me, if I had actually owned my own automobile. That period of my lif ... More >>

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Jack Bruce follows his own path

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